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Taliban Fighters Returning to Helmand Province Districts Just Evacuated by U.S. and NATO Forces
Rod Nordland
Taliban Push Into Afghan Districts That U.S. Had Secured
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — In a large swath of the Taliban heartland in southern Afghanistan, government centers are facing a long-dormant concern this winter: Four years after the American troop surge helped make such places relatively secure, they are back under threat from the insurgents.
The fighting in Helmand Province in the south has been particularly deadly, with over 1,300 security force members killed between June and November. And the insurgents' siege of several key districts has continued long after the traditional end of the fighting season.
It has been so bad that the 90-bed hospital for war wounded run in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, by the international aid group Emergency was still running nearly full in early December, according to Emanuele Nannini, the group's coordinator. While the group keeps no statistics on how many of its patients are fighters, and treats all sides, a rough estimate is that half of the patients are Afghan police officers, from both national and local forces. Soldiers are treated in military hospitals, which do not divulge their statistics.
An X-ray showed a bullet lodged inside another child from Sangin District. The child was paralyzed from the chest down. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times
"This year is much worse than previous years," said Dr. Abdul Hamidi, a police colonel who is head of medical services for the national police in Helmand. "We've heard that the Quetta Shura has a big push to raise their flags over three districts by January, and has ordered their people to keep fighting until they do," he said, referring to the exiled Taliban leadership council in Pakistan.
One of the differences is that this year, the American forces, and their close air support, have been almost completely absent from the field. And though the Afghan forces are holding on, for the most part, they are taking punishingly heavy losses.
The Taliban offensive in northern parts of Helmand Province began in earnest in June, after the last American troops pulled out of the area, and has continued at a fierce tempo.
The medical coordinator at the Emergency hospital in Lashkar Gah, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, said the facility had treated 1,952 war-related victims through the end of October; 940 of them were women and children, and most of the rest were likely combatants, she said.
Given the area's long tradition as a Taliban stronghold, the authorities expected the June and July offensive, which at some points threatened the fall of both Sangin District and Musa Qala District. What has been unusual is the apparent determination of the Taliban to continue pressing the fight
The insurgents even managed to infiltrate the Afghan National Army's main base in Helmand Province, Camp Shorab Maidan, formerly called Camp Bastion when it served as Britain's main base in Afghanistan.
Now, it is the headquarters of the army's 215th Corps. The infiltration was not the first on the sprawling base, and the insurgents managed to destroy aircraft during a raid on the base in 2012. But this one took three days to completely subdue, even after the authorities insisted it was over on both the first and again on the second day. The British had handed the base over to the Afghans only a month earlier.
On Dec. 5, after the latest infiltration, the commander of the 215th Corps, Gen. Sayid Moluk, was dismissed and replaced by Gen. Dadan Lawang, according to Afghan officials, who declined to confirm whether the unplanned change of command was related to the attack.
Nationwide, Afghanistan has lost more than 5,000 police and soldiers in the fighting this year, more than any previous year, according to official Afghan data that has not been formally released, but that was obtained by The New York Times and confirmed by Western officials familiar with the data.
The year has also hit a new high for civilian deaths in the fighting, which the United Nations estimates will exceed 10,000 by the end of 2014.
Helmand has been a particular rough spot — not just according to casualty figures, but also taking into account overall views of the government's performance.
A recent report commissioned by the international community and carried out by an independent consultant, Coffey International Development, found that by almost every measure Afghans in Helmand saw a worsening in corruption, security, government services and delivery of justice since the departure of foreign forces.
The Helmand Monitoring and Evaluation Program, carried out for the British government since 2010, said results have never been so poor.
In Helmand, the fighting has been heaviest in Sangin, where the insurgents remain within a mile of the government buildings in the district center. But it has also been fierce in the districts of Musa Qala, Kajaki, and Now Zad in the north, and even, recently, in Marja District south and west of here — an area that had been thoroughly pacified by United States Marines after a major push in 2010.
The brunt of the current fighting in northern Sangin has been carried out by Afghan police units, who often perform a largely military role in areas like Helmand Province. According to Dr. Hamidi, the national Second Police Battalion has in the past two years had 154 soldiers suffer disabling wounds — out of a strength of 344 men.
But so far, even without coalition support, Afghan forces have managed to beat back the insurgents and keep them from totally overrunning a district.
Wounded police officers at Emergency expressed concern at the increased scale of the fighting. "Only the asphalt road is under the control of the government in Sangin. Everything else is Taliban," said Samiullah, a policeman in Sangin for the past four years who goes by just one name. He was shot in the leg during an ambush in a village near the district center.
Like many of the wounded, he complained about both the Afghan National Army and his own commanders. "Our own commanders sell our bullets to the Taliban instead of giving them to us, and then they buy a nice house in Lashkar Gah and stay there, leaving the little guys out there to do the fighting," Samiullah said.
Now that the Americans are gone, the army rarely conducts joint operations with the police, leaving them to do most of the fighting, said Mohammad Saleh, a five-year veteran of the Afghan Local Police in Sangin, who was badly wounded in both legs when his checkpoint was overrun by the insurgents.
Mr. Saleh remains patriotic and wants to return to the fight, but he conceded that corruption was as big an enemy as the Taliban. "Our commanders all buy their positions, so they have to make money to pay for them," he said. "The Taliban do not do this with their commanders."
In Musa Qala, which is near Sangin and has also been hard-pressed, Mohammad Khan, 20, a three-year veteran of the police, said the insurgents had surrounded his post three times in recent weeks, until he was wounded in early December by a mine. "It was better when the Americans were here," he said. "But they cannot break us — they cannot."
Fighting lately has been so intense that in recent weeks ambulances have not been able to travel on the heavily mined roads, and the police especially are afraid to use them for fear of attack, they say.
When an Afghan policeman named Torja was wounded in Now Zad District, northern Helmand, on Dec. 5, his commander paid a taxi $70 to take him, out of uniform, to the Emergency hospital — many times the going rate for such a trip.
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In Memory of Whitney Houston – She Touched a Young Child's Life and Will Never Know How Much
Whitney Houston touched many lives. The voice she brought to the music world was outstanding. The words in her songs comforted many people. But one thing Whitney never knew – was the joy she brought to my son's life. My son, whom is severely disabled (physically and developmentally) due to a brain hemorrhage at three weeks of age, took to MTV when he was no more than a year old. He loved MTV. He loved Michael Jackson, Starship Enterprise, Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston and later on – Billy Ray Cyrus. That being said – Ryan had his favorites and Whitney was one of them and he made that quite clear.
Whitney's hit song, "The Greatest Love of All" first aired in 1986. It was a huge hit for my son – she brightened his world more than she will ever know. When the video came on MTV – he would hoot and holler like no other with such excitement, rocking back and forth as hard as he could whether he was sitting propped up on the couch or strapped into his tumble-form chair. As Ryan rocked – his arms would go a hundred miles an hour. The same year this song went live, my ex and I separated. Finding it hard at times to deal – I would pack up Ryan and we'd ride around in the car listening to music on the radio. If Whitney's song aired – there you would see my son in his car seat – screaming with excitement – trying to rock as hard as he could despite how well he was strapped in.
Then there were the times I found it necessary to take my son grocery shopping with me. Not an easy task as he didn't sit well in the shopping cart seat – but we managed. Well, I guess the little man decided grocery shopping wasn't for him. After a few times – he screamed as we'd head into the store – and not because he was excited! You would have thought I was hurting this kid physically. He would cry – scream – it was awful! I didn't know what to do. Continued….
Then I got this brainstorm. What if I bought a cassette tape player and put headphones on him to let him listen to his music while we shopped. I wasn't sure this would be a go because he didn't like to have his head touched at all – but I felt it was worth a try. Do you know – once he realized Whitney was singing (I'd put the headphone up to his ear) – he was as happy as could be. He allowed the headphones to go on his head – he'd even keep them there. He would sit in that cart seat hooting and hollering with excitement. He would try to rock in the seat – just like at home and in the car. People would stop and say to me – he's such happy child. I would reply with, "As long as he has his Whitney playing, he's as happy as can be." Eventually, I made a tape of all the songs from the artists he really likes – best thing I ever did! We could go anywhere and he'd be very content.
I never wrote to Whitney to tell her how much she touched his life, and I really wish I had now. She was the first who touched him so deeply. Billy Ray Cyrus came second and he still touches Ryan deeply – we have to have his CD on every morning while we're getting him up. He knows the songs so well, that he says the words before they're sung (so much for being a vegetable they told me he'd be).
The difference though – we got to meet Billy Ray in person, one on one after a performance here in NH. It was a very special time – more so for me because I wanted Billy to know how much he touched Ryan's life. Ryan was front row and center of the stage and Billy Ray made eye contact with Ryan several times. After the show, we were escorted out the back where he met Ryan. He signed a cap for Ryan, a picture and we got pictures of us with Billy Ray. I gave Billy Ray a VCR tape of Ryan being casted for a body brace – which I heard he actually viewed. If it weren't for Billy's songs – the casting would NEVER have happened. Ryan may not have understood the whole deal in meeting Billy Ray – but I'm glad Billy Ray knows how much he touched my son's life – I just wished Whitney had too.
As I sit here wishing Whitney had known – I think Whitney's daughter would appreciate knowing how much her mother meant to a young child – I may just have to write to her 🙂 Whitney will always live on. She'll always be remembered for the lives she had touched.
2 Responses to "In Memory of Whitney Houston – She Touched a Young Child's Life and Will Never Know How Much"
darlene miller says:
your story touched my heart,they say that music is good for the soul and they are right. yes, we will truly miss whitney.she brought out the beauty in ryan . she 's gone now,but im sure she's knows what you wrote and saying i did good ,didnt I.
Finger Click Saver says:
Ryan is proof of music being good for the soul – you are so right! Thanks Darlene 🙂

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Israel's Role in the Destabilization of Pakistan
The public has an intuitive grasp of the source of this oft-recurring behavior.
Sunday, December 20,2009 20:01
Middle East Online
The public has an intuitive grasp of the source of this oft-recurring behavior. An October 2003 poll of 7,500 respondents in member nations of the European Union found that Israel was considered the greatest threat to world peace, notes Jeff Gates.
When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe. Thus the force-multiplier effect when staged crises are reinforced with pre-staged intelligence. In combination, the two often prove persuasive.
That duplicity was on display when US lawmakers were induced to invade Iraq in response to the mass murder of 9-11. That crisis alone, however, was insufficient. Military mobilization required a "consensus" belief in Iraqi WMD, Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, Iraqi mobile biological weapons, Iraqi meetings in Prague, and so forth. Though all were false, those "facts" proved sufficient to induce an invasion of Iraq.
Such agent provocateur operations typically include collateral incidents as pre-staging for the intended main event. Ongoing incidents suggest a follow-on operation is underway. Recent history suggests we'll see an orgy of evidence that plausibly indicts a pre-staged Evil Doer. Though Iran is an obvious candidate, Pakistan is also a possibility where outside forces have been destabilizing this nuclear Islamic nation with a series of violent incidents.
Will it be coincidence if the next war—like the last—is consistent with the expansive goals of Jewish nationalists?
The Indo-Israel Alliance
December 2007 saw the murder of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Mark Siegel, her Ashkenazim biographer and lobbyist, assured US diplomats that her return was "the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact."
President Pervez Musharraf had announced that resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict was essential to the resolution of conflicts in Iraq and neighboring Afghanistan. That comment made him a target for Tel Aviv.
During Bhutto's two terms as prime minister, Pakistani support for the Taliban—then celebrated as the freedom-fighting Mujahadin—enabled her to wield influence in Afghanistan while also catalyzing conflicts in Kashmir. By fueling tension with India, she also fueled an Indo-Israel alliance as Tel Aviv provided New Delhi an emergency shipment of artillery shells during a conflict over the Kirpal region of Kashmir.
In January 2009, Israel delivered to India the first of three Phalcon Airborne Warning & Control Systems (AWACS) shifting the balance of conventional weapons in the region. That sale confirmed what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier announced: "Our ties with India don't have any limitation…." That became apparent in April when Israel signed a $1.1 billion agreement to provide India an advanced tactical air defense system developed by Raytheon, a US defense contractor.
In August 2008, Ashkenazim General David Kezerashvili returned to Georgia from Tel Aviv to lead an assault on separatists in South Ossetia with the support of Israeli arms and training. That crisis ignited Cold War tensions between the US and Russia, key members of the Quartet (along with the EU and the UN) pledged to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Little was said about the Israeli interest in a pipeline across Georgia meant to move Caspian oil through Turkey and on to Eurasia, using Israel as an intermediary while undermining Russia's oil industry.
More Game Theory Warfare?
Bhutto's murder ensured a crisis that replaced Musharaff with Asif Ali Zardari, her notoriously corrupt husband. By Washington's alliance with Zardari, the US could be portrayed as extending its corrupting influence in the region.
On August 7, 2008, the Zadari-led ruling coalition called for a no-confidence vote in Parliament against Musharraf just as he was departing for the Summer Olympics in Beijing. On August 8, heavy fighting erupted overnight in South Ossetia. As with many of the recent incidents in Pakistan, this violent event involved armed separatists.
But for pro-Israeli influence inside the US government, would our State Department have installed in office the corrupt Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, leading to record-level poppy production? Is the heroin epidemic presently eroding Russian society traceable to Israel's infamous game theory war-planners? [See "How Israel Wages Game Theory Warfare" http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/08/26/jeff-gates-how-israel-wages-game-theory-warfare/ and "Israel and 9-11" http://www.middle-east-online.com/English/?id=34283.]
In late November 2008, a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India's financial center, renewed fears of nuclear tension between India and Pakistan. When the attackers struck a hostel managed by Chabad Lubavitch, an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect from New York, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni announced from Tel Aviv: "Our world is under attack." By early December, Israeli journalists urged that we "fortify the security of Jewish institutions worldwide."
Soon after "India's 9-11" was found to include operatives from Pakistan's western tribal region, Zardari announced an agreement with the Taliban to allow Sharia law to govern a swath of the North West Frontier Province where Al Qaeda members reportedly reside.
Pakistani cooperation with "Islamic extremists" created the impression of enhanced insecurity and vulnerability for the US and its allies. That perceived threat was marketed by mainstream media as proof of the perils of "militant Islam."
With the Taliban and Al Qaeda portrayed as operating freely in a nuclear-armed Islamic state, Tel Aviv gained traction for its claim that a nuclear Tehran posed an "existential threat" to the Jewish state. Meanwhile Israel's election of an ultra-nationalist/ultra-orthodox coalition further delayed resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
More delay is destined to evoke more extremism and gain more traction for those marketing the "global war on terrorism." Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni argued after the assault in Mumbai: "Israel, India and the rest of the free world are positioned in the forefront of the battle against terrorists and extremism."
In announcing that list, Islamabad was indicted by its exclusion even though Pakistan is dominantly Sunni and, unlike Iran's Shi'a, abhors theocratic rule. The fact patterns suggest that Pakistan, not India, was the target of the murderous terrorism in Mumbai.
Advised by legions of Ashkenazim, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent mission to Islamabad was a diplomatic disaster. Abrasive and arrogant, America's top diplomat reinforced Pakistani concerns that it is surrounded by hostile forces and that the nation is being set up to fail by Jewish nationalist advisers to a nation it considered an ally.
In a climate of heightened tensions, Clinton undermined US interests, boosted the Israeli case for a global war on "Islamo-fascism" and lent credence to the Clash of Civilizations.
Destabilization as a Prequel to Domination
As Afghanistan and Pakistan join other nations being destabilized by outside forces, key questions must be answered:
• Was India's 9-11 a form of geopolitical misdirection meant to serve both the tactical goals of Muslim extremists and the strategic goals of Jewish nationalists? Who benefits—within Pakistan—from humiliation at the hands of India and the US?
• With Bhutto's murder and Musharraf's departure, the crisis in Mumbai drew Pakistani forces to the Indian border and away from the western tribal region. Was that the geostrategic goal of these well-timed crises? What role, if any, did Israel play?
• Is delay in ending the occupation of Palestine part of an agent provocateur strategy? Was the latest assault on Gaza part of this strategy?
Each of these crises incrementally advanced the expansionist agenda of Colonial Zionists. Do these collateral incidents trace their origin to a common source? Is that source again using serial events to pre-stage a main event?
The public has an intuitive grasp of the source of this oft-recurring behavior. An October 2003 poll of 7,500 respondents in member nations of the European Union found that Israel was considered the greatest threat to world peace.
Is terrorism limited to "Islamo-fascists"? Are mass murders also deployed—from the shadows—as a strategy of geopolitical manipulation by those who Ashkenazim philosopher Hannah Arendt described as "Jewish fascists"?
Jeff Gates is author of Guilt By Association, Democracy at Risk and The Ownership Solution. See www.criminalstate.com.
tags: Israeli Mossad / Invade Iraq / WMD / Al Qaeda / The Israel-Palestine Conflict / Pakistan
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Ashkenazim is a term for Jewish People of European extraction. It is incorrect to use in the context used in this article.
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Fabian Marti * 1979 in Fribourg, lives in Zurich
"With post-minimal verve and conceptual flair, Fabian Marti creates sculptural and wall works through which he explores ideas about artistic production and identity. Marti's work extends from a reconsideration of the role of the artist as a brand and producer of goods and services for clients such as collectors, institutions, and viewers. He often includes recurring motifs, such as Op art-like black-and-white patterns and handprints, and embraces mechanical processes that include sig [...]
"With post-minimal verve and conceptual flair, Fabian Marti creates sculptural and wall works through which he explores ideas about artistic production and identity. Marti's work extends from a reconsideration of the role of the artist as a brand and producer of goods and services for clients such as collectors, institutions, and viewers. He often includes recurring motifs, such as Op art-like black-and-white patterns and handprints, and embraces mechanical processes that include signature traces of the artist's hand at work: photograms, ceramics, installations, and prints. Marti sees his work as aiming to break free of mechanical social and technological conceits. "To work in a more direct way, with my hands, I see it as a very archaic thing: creating something out of earth," he says."
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Fernando Velázquez Vigil (born Havana, Cuba; March 15, 1950 – died Havana; July 31, 2002) was a Cuban artist specialising in ceramics and painting.

Education
Between 1965 and 1967 he studied ceramics at the Taller de Cerámica Artística Cubanacán, Havana. From 1970 to 1974 he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Havana.
In 1980 he was a founding member of the Asociación Cubana de Artesanos Artistas (ACAA), Havana.

Individual exhibitions
In 1982 he had a solo exhibition titled Arqueología para una arqueología. Cerámicas, in the Galería Casa de Cultura de Plaza, Havana. In 1985 he presented his works in the show Cerámica, esmalte y fuego. Cerámicas de Velázquez Vigil, in the Galería Plaza Vieja, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Havana. In 1988 he exhibited Monumento a la vida. Cerámicas Velázquez Vigil, in the Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana. In 1994 presented Más allá de la Tierra y el Fuego, in the Centro de Prensa Internacional, Havana.

Collective exhibitions
In 1970 his works were part of the Cuba Visita Japón exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. In 1976 he was included in the Salón Permanente de Jóvenes. Pintura y Grabado, in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. In 1991 some of his works were selected as part of the XLVII Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d'Arte Contemporanea, in Faenza, Italy. In 1996 he was one of the selected artists in the show Panorama de la Cerámica Cubana Contemporánea, part of the XXXVIII Salón Anual Internacional, in the Centro Argentino de Arte Cerámica, Museo Eduardo Sivori, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1998 he was included in the show Tributo a la danza, in Galería Habana, Havana.

Awards
In 1983 he was awarded the National Prize, II Feria de Cerámica, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba. He won a prize in the I (1989) and III (1993) Bienal de Cerámica de Pequeño Formato Amelia Peláez, in Havana. In 1990 he won the Prize and Grand Prize René Portocarrero at the Salón de Artes Plásticas UNEAC'90, seen at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, in Havana.

Collections
His works can be found in the collection of the Museo de la Cerámica, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana. (Room III: Revolutionary Triumph)

References

1950 births
2002 deaths
Cuban contemporary artists
Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro alumni

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Eight-part historical BBC drama centred around the wars between the Saxons and Danes during the ninth century. Alexander Dreymon stars as the warrior Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the son of a Saxon nobleman who was captured by the Danes as a child and raised as one of their own. After Uhtred is blamed for an English uprising he is imprisoned along with fellow captive Brida (Emily Cox). When they are released the pair flee to Winchester, the capital of Wessex, and pledge allegiance to King Alfred (David Dawson). Uhtred takes on the role of training the Saxon forces but will he remain loyal to the country of his birth or will he turn back to those who raised him?Based on: The historical novels by Bernard Cornwell Technical Specs: Languages(s): EnglishHard of Hearing Subtitles: EnglishInteractive MenuScene AccessScreen ratio 1:1.78 Extras included: Bonus FootageDocumentaries: 'Creating the World of The Last Kingdom', 'The Stunts of The Last Kingdom'Making of Documentary


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Making Just Culture a Reality: One Organization's Approach
with commentary by Alison H. Page, MS, MHA, Just Culture, October 2007
We've all been there...something goes wrong, a patient is harmed, and we, as medical directors, managers, and administrators, are forced to judge the behavioral choices of another human being. Most of the time, we conduct this complex leadership function guided by little more than vague policies, personal beliefs, and intuition. Frequently, we are frustrated by the fact that many other providers have made the same mistake or behavioral choice, with no adverse outcome to the patient, and the behavior was overlooked. Quite understandably, the staff is frustrated by what appears to be inconsistent, irrational decision-making by leadership. The "just culture" concept teaches us to shift our attention from retrospective judgment of others, focused on the severity of the outcome, to real-time evaluation of behavioral choices in a rational and organized manner.
In Conversation with...David Marx, JD
Just Culture, October 2007
An engineer and an attorney by training, David Marx, JD, is president of Outcome Engineering, a risk management firm. After a career focused on safety assessment and improvement in aviation, he has spent the last decade focusing on the interface between systems engineering, human factors, and the law. In 2001, he wrote a seminal paper describing the concept of just culture, which became a focal point for efforts to reconcile notions of "no blame" and "accountability." He has gone on to form the "Just Culture Community" to address these issues at health care institutions around the country.
Patient Safety Primers
Patient Safety 101
This Primer provides an overview of the history and current status of the patient safety field and key definitions and concepts. It links to other Patient Safety Primers that discuss the concepts in more detail.
Our long journey towards a safety-minded just culture. Part II: where we're going.
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. September 21, 2006;11:1-2.
This second part of this series discusses the three types of behavior involved in error—human error, at-risk behavior, and reckless behavior—including causes of each and appropriate responses.
No more blame & shame: developing event-reporting systems may go a long way to reducing patient care errors in EMS.
Rajasekaran K, Fairbanks RJ, Shah MN. EMS Mag. 2008 Sep;37:61-67.
This article describes how applying a just culture and systems approach to adverse events may help change the "blame-and-shame" mentality in emergency medical service provision.
Balancing "no blame" with accountability in patient safety. Get Citation
Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ. N Engl J Med. 2009;361:1401-1406.
An early focus of the patient safety movement was a shift from the traditional culture of individual blame to one that investigated errors as the failure of systems, popularized by adoption of James Reason's Swiss cheese model of organizational accidents. In recent years, there has been some backlash against a unidimensional systems-focused model, with past commentaries exploring the tension between a "no blame" culture and individual accountability. Articles in this genre have considered this tension in the educational setting, and a popular construct involves a just culture framework, which differentiates "no blame" from blameworthy acts. This commentary, written by two of the leaders in the safety field, further explores the relationship between blame and accountability, discusses why enforcement of safety standards tends to be lax (particularly in cases involving physicians), and proposes a working balance that not only promotes a safety culture but also safe patient care. The authors highlight hand hygiene non-compliance as an example of a behavior that should be managed through an accountability framework, with providers held accountable for failure to adhere to a known safety standard. They also offer suggested penalties (mostly involving suspension of clinical privileges) for repeated failures to comply with hand hygiene and other established safe practices.
The 'second victims' of medication errors begin to gain support.
Blum K. Pharmacy Practice News. November 16, 2011.
Exploring the impact of medication errors on clinicians, this article discusses efforts to support second victims affected by medical error.
The criminalization of mistakes in nursing. Get Citation
Philipsen NC. J Nurse Pract. 2011;7:719-726.
This commentary describes how treating medical mistakes in a punitive manner could have a detrimental effect on safe nursing practice and learning from error.
Leading a highly visible hospital through a serious reportable event. Get Citation
Erickson JI. J Nurs Adm. 2012;42:131-133.
This commentary describes how culture, transparency, and resilience helped a chief nurse executive manage the consequences of a high-profile clinical alarm failure.
Talking with patients about other clinicians' errors. Get Citation
Gallagher TH, Mello MM, Levinson W, et al. N Engl J Med. 2013;369:1752-1757.
Physicians are notably loath to fully disclose their own errors, but some progress is being made in this area due to institutional policies supporting error disclosure. This article is intended to foster discussion of an especially thorny issue: how clinicians should approach error disclosure when the error was committed by a colleague. As little prior literature exists regarding this dilemma, the authors emphasize a patient-centered approach that begins with a respectful peer-to-peer conversation and does not shirk the need to fully disclose the error. The importance of institutional support, particularly in establishing a just culture that promotes error disclosure, is also emphasized. The article's lead author, Dr. Thomas Gallagher, was interviewed by AHRQ WebM&M in 2009.
Mistakes were made.
Weber DO. Hosp Health Networks Daily. February 25, 2014.
This article reports on the pervasive challenges to error disclosure and advocates for establishing a just culture to promote these conversations and enhance safety. The author discusses a study that highlighted the need for a patient-centered approach to facilitate peer-to-peer conversations about errors, along with responses solicited regarding a disclosure scenario.
A just culture after Mid Staffordshire. Get Citation
Dekker SW, Hugh TB. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23:356-358.
In the context of public reactions to the Francis report, this commentary discusses why the poor conditions were missed and how to prevent failures from recurring once they are identified. The authors advocate for a just culture that balances blame and accountability to address complexities in the health care setting.
Disclosure of adverse events and errors in surgical care: challenges and strategies for improvement. Get Citation
Lipira LE, Gallagher TH. World J Surg. 2014;38:1614-1621.
Error disclosure is receiving increased attention as a strategy to improve communication and patient safety. This review discusses elements of surgical care that hinder disclosure, including frequency of adverse events, teamwork and hierarchy, and lack of surgery-specific guidelines.
'Just culture': improving safety by achieving substantive, procedural and restorative justice. Get Citation
Dekker SWA, Breakey H. Saf Sci. 2016;85:187-193.
A just culture balances organizational context with appropriate accountability after an error. This commentary outlines moral and safety issues that just culture approaches should address to build trust for blame-free response to error and enable learning from failure.
Creating a culture of accountability promotes safe medical care.
Canadian Medical Protective Association. CMPA Perspective. September 2018;10:8-11.
Frontline leadership should model just culture behaviors to encourage reporting and discussion of error to facilitate improvement. This news article uses a medical administration error to examine whether human error, at-risk behavior, or reckless action on the part of a clinician led to the mistake and explores leadership response to the incident to determine accountability in each type of situation.
Selected medication safety risks that can easily fall off the radar screen—part 1, part 2, and part 3. Get Citation
Grissinger M. P T. 2018;43:521,567;585-586;645-646,666.
Although best practices that support safe and reliable medication therapy exist, they are not uniformly embedded in care delivery. This three-part series discusses medication safety risks and highlights topics such as wrong-patient orders, inadequate patient understanding of drug instructions, and poor lighting.
The impact of errors on healthcare professionals in the critical care setting. Get Citation
Kaur AP, Levinson AT, Monteiro JFG, Carino GP. J Crit Care. 2019;52:16-21.
The second victim effect has been used to describe the emotional impact that providers may experience when involved in a medical error, adverse event, or unanticipated patient outcome. In this survey study, researchers found that members of a critical care society frequently admitted to experiencing negative emotions such as blame and guilt when responding to questions involving scenarios of different types of errors. Nearly 70% of respondents suggested that team debriefings and talking with colleagues could help mitigate the second victim effect.
Another round of the blame game: a paralyzing criminal indictment that recklessly "overrides" just culture.
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. February 14, 2019;24.
Reporting on the criminal indictment of a nurse involved in the death of a patient, this newsletter article reviews factors that contributed to the failure, urges leadership to modify the use of blame tactics in response to medical mistakes, and highlights guidelines to prevent similar incidents.


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Though film fans everywhere let out a sigh of relief when it was recently announced that Joss Whedon would be returning to write and direct The Avengers 2, a big question mark on Marvel's upcoming slate remained. Thor: The Dark World and Captain American: The Winter Soldier already have directors attached and are well on their way to production, but Guardians of the Galaxy—the studio's sole original property on the Phase Two slate—was still without a director.
We recently learned that screenwriter Chris McCoy had been hired to rewrite the existing script by Nicole Perlman, and now comes word that Marvel has finally closed in on their director to bring the space-set superhero story to the big screen: James Gunn. Hit the jump for more.
Per Heat Vision, Marvel's number one choice to direct Guardians of the Galaxy is Super and Slither director James Gunn. This is both a shocking and wildly exciting choice. Gunn has zero experience directing big budget fare (he did write the scripts for the Scooby-Doo films and Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead), but he's proved to be excellent at blending elements of humor, horror, and drama with his previous directorial features.
THR notes that Marvel is currently exclusively talking with Gunn, but they haven't ruled out other directors that are also in the running. Those choices include Peyton Reed (Yes Man, Bring It On) and the directing duo Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Half Nelson, It's Kind of a Funny Story). It's certainly clear that Marvel is looking for someone with both comedic and dramatic experience to bring Guardians of the Galaxy, with little worry about the director's familiarity with action sequences. As Whedon recently signed a deal to stay with Marvel through 2015 and creatively consult on the studio's other properties in addition to his Avengers 2 duties, I can't help but think he had some input regarding these Guardians directors.
Guardians of the Galaxy is going to be one hell of a feature film to pull off—possibly the most difficult in Marvel Studios' history. The cast of characters in the film include Drax The Destroyer, a human resurrected as a warrior with the sole purpose of killing Thanos (that smiling baddie at the end of The Avengers), Star-Lord, a half-human/half-alien "intergalactic vigilante", Groot, a giant tree (he's essentially an Ent), Gamora, the last survivor of her species who is saved by Thanos to be his assassin but who now battles him, and of course there's the talking Rocket Raccoon.
It's worth noting that, should Gunn sign on to helm Guardians of the Galaxy, there will be two key Marvel directors who have a close working relationship with Nathan Fillion. So, Fillion fanboys, address your letters/pleas accordingly and cross those fingers.


Abstract Igneous rocks of intermediate to acidic composition commonly exhibit considerable degrees of isotope variability preserved at the crystal and sub-crystal scale, as well as a significant U–Pb age range, reflecting protracted timescales of zircon crystallization and long magma residence times. The association of high-precision U–Pb zircon dates with stable and radiogenic isotope data represents a powerful tool to unravel the petrological evolution of granitic rocks, hence allowing a better understanding of the processes that led to the formation and reworking of the continental crust. In this case study, we combine high-precision U–Pb dates with stable and radiogenic isotope data from zircon crystals in the Larderello–Travale (Italy) shallow-level granites. These rocks are peraluminous two-mica, cordierite-bearing granites and represent pure crustal anatectic magmas, generated in a post-collisional extensional setting. As such, they are ideal candidates to investigate the timing, rates and mechanisms of melt production during anatectic magma formation, giving insights into the process of intracrustal differentiation. Magmatic zircon crystals from the Larderello–Travale granites contain δ18O values ranging from 8.6 to 13.5‰ and crystals from individual samples exhibit inter-and intra-grain oxygen isotope variability exceeding 3‰. The analysed crystals have εHf values ranging between −7.4 and −12.4, with moderate, intra-sample εHf isotope variability. All CA-ID-TIMS (chemical abration isotope-dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry) 206Pb/238U zircon ages range from 4.5 to 1.6 Ma and suggest four pulses of magmatic activity at ∼3.6, 3.2, 2.7 and 1.6 Ma. More importantly, zircon crystals from individual samples typically exhibit an age spread as large as 300–500 ka. This age dispersion suggests that most of the zircon did not crystallize at the emplacement level but in the middle crust and were subsequently recycled and juxtaposed during ascent and emplaced at shallow level. When plotted against age, stable and radiogenic isotope data suggest the co-existence of multiple and isotopically distinct magma batches produced by partial melting of different crustal domains. This requires coeval magma batches that are physically separated and evolve independently for hundreds of thousands of years before coalescing during ascent and emplacement. The involvement of multiple sources in the production of crustal anatectic magmas reflects the inherent heterogeneous nature of the continental crust and result from the interplay between the rise and evolution of the geotherms through the crust and the composition of the fertile source rocks. Finally, the isotopically diverse zircon-bearing magma batches mixed and assembled into shallow-level intrusions generated during the four major magma pulses.


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Staff say Twitch has a chronic problem with racism, sexism, and indifference
UPDATE: A sprawling report from GamesIndustry collects the experiences of over a dozen Twitch employees that make the argument that the company has repeatedly failed its staff and users.
"Nobody ever really took responsibility for anything and there was nobody to go to if you were threatened, or felt threatened, or were harmed in some way."
- One of several Twitch employees speaking to GamesIndustry argues that reports of inappropriate behavior weren't properly handled during their time at Twitch.
Numerous previous and current Twitch employees say that the livestreaming giant has repeatedly failed both its employees and its community. Those slights, as reported by over a dozen staff members, include allegations of sexism and misconduct that span the entirety of the company's reign, and indifference to valid issues raised by community members and staff alike.
A recent GamesIndustry report collects the experiences and allegations of 16 past and present Twitch employees from the company's entire 13 years of operation (including its days as Justin.tv). According to the publication, most of the individuals it spoke with could attest to moments of inaction against harassment and abuse and a company that fostered a toxic culture.
Women that have worked at Twitch call the company a "boys' club" and say that a culture of casual sexism permeated the company in its early days, though complaints of sexism were one of the most common issues raised by those speaking to GamesIndustry.
Those complaints include sexist language used to refer to women in the workplace, sometimes to their faces, and inaction from HR and company leadership when women reported acts of misogyny and harassment experienced at work.
This attitude extends beyond just staff members as well, with some employees chronicling how issues faced by women streamers were often ignored or not taken seriously while decision makers at Twitch routinely categorized women streaming on Twitch as "boob streamers" and dismissed their complaints on that basis.
"With the senior leadership, I found it to be extreme arrogance," one source tells GamesIndustry. "You said there were allegations of racism or sexism, etc. For me, it was more general apathy, extreme arrogance, and righteousness about their own beliefs that led me to believe this was not a culture that fosters diversity of thinking and styles."
Another employee adds later on that Twitch, after years of indifference, only began to focus on improving its moderation efforts when platform holders like Sony and Microsoft voiced concerns about implementing Twitch support in their consoles due to lax Twitch-wide moderation policies.
Twitch has commented on many of the individual allegations within the full story with statements that range from acknowledgement of changes made since the incidents themselves came to light to a comment arguing that any suggestions that it doesn't take incidents such as these seriously "misrepresent[s] our culture, leadership, and values."
That being said, the comments collected here are only a fraction of the experiences about office culture, inappropriate behavior at Twitch-sanctioned parties, cultural insensitivity, and general toxicity chronicled in the GamesIndustry report which can be found in full here.
UPDATE: Twitch has offered another statement expressing disappointment at the alleged behavior of some of its employees, while also suggesting the GamesIndustry.biz report doesn't do enough to "acknowledge the ways in which our company has evolved."
Commenting on the report in a statement sent to Gamasutra, a Twitch spokesperson acknowledged the company isn't "without fault or above criticism," but that it has taken steps to cultivate a more positive workplace environment, including investing heavily in HR and making diverse leadership appointments, that better reflects its culture and values.
"It's deeply disappointing to read accounts of toxicity from people who had negative experiences at and on Twitch. Clearly, some of the processes and policies we had in the past did not do enough to make our employees and community members feel safe and valued," reads the statement.
"While we are not without fault or above criticism, this article does not adequately acknowledge all the ways in which our company has evolved and the numerous steps we've taken over the years to build a company that protects and supports our employees and community.
"We've invested heavily in our HR and safety teams, brought in new, diverse leadership and will continue to invest time and resources in this area. We take any allegations of this nature extremely seriously, whether on our service or within our company, and work swiftly to investigate and address them as appropriate, bringing in third parties to ensure impartiality when needed. Any claims to the contrary simply misrepresent our culture and values."


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Nuno Albertino Varela Tavares (Lisboa, 26 de janeiro de 2000) é um futebolista português que atua como lateral-esquerdo. Atualmente defende o , emprestado pelo .

Carreira do clube
Em 27 de outubro de 2018, Tavares estreou-se profissionalmente pelo Benfica B num jogo da LigaPro 2018-2019 frente ao Sporting da Covilhã. Ele jogou os 90 minutos completos da vitória em casa por 3–2.

Em 4 de agosto de 2019, Tavares estreou-se com o Benfica na Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira de 2019, uma vitória por 5-0 sobre os rivais da cidade, o Sporting CP, no Estádio Algarve. Uma semana depois, ele fez sua estreia na Primeira Liga contra o FC Paços de Ferreira e marcou seu primeiro gol para abrir uma vitória em casa por 5-0, adicionando duas assistências.

Em 30 de julho de 2022, Tavares foi emprestado ao , proveniente do .

Vida pessoal
Nascido em Portugal, Tavares é descendente de cabo-verdianos.

Títulos
Benfica

 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira de 2019

Ligações externas
 Perfil oficial do Benfica
 Nuno Tavares no ForaDeJogo

 Dados da Seleção Nacional em FPF.pt

Futebolistas de Portugal
Naturais de Lisboa
Nascidos em 2000
Futebolistas do Sport Lisboa e Benfica B
Futebolistas do Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Futebolistas do Arsenal F.C.
Futebolistas do Olympique de Marseille


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Walter M. Pierce papers
The Walter M. Pierce Papers span the first half of the 20th century and are comprised of correspondence, speeches, reports and related material covering U. S., and particularly Pacific Northwest, history and politics. A major portion of the collection documents Pierce's involvement in the first ten years of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, providing detailed, ongoing accounts of the implementation and operation of New Deal economic and social welfare programs and their impact on Pierce's constituency and peers. The Papers are especially rich in the areas of agriculture, irrigation and land reclamation, public ownership and development of hydroelectric power, Columbia River development and forest management. There are substantial files on such Depression-era federal programs as the Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration (emphasizing the Northwest); information on the situations and problems of minority groups, including Black Americans, Indians (Native Americans), Catholics, Jews and Japanese; and files on significant issues, i.e. national defense, transportation, aviation, Communism, the Supreme Court during the Roosevelt administration, economics and natural resources. The extended subject files on war document sentiments of U. S. citizens regarding World War II, and whether or not the U. S. should join the war in Europe. It also contains correspondence concerning Japan's December 1941 attack on the U. S. Naval Base in Pearl Harbor and the period immediately following.
Earlier correspondence in the Pierce Papers covers Pierce's years as State Senator and Governor in Oregon, the establishment of the "Oregon system" of direct popular government, and the various events and personalities that comprised the Oregon political scene after the turn-of-the century.
In addition to the correspondence files, there are subject files containing pamphlets and printed material on pertinent topics, speech files, bills introduced by Pierce into the national legislature, a newspaper clippings file, personal and estate papers, and drafts of Pierce's memoirs, with associated materials used in the biography of Pierce edited by Arthur Bone, Oregon Cattleman/Governor/Congressman: Memoirs and Times of Walter M. Pierce, Oregon Historical Society, 1981.
The photographs in the collection include 153 images, primarily personal snapshots of Pierce and his third wife, Cornelia Marvin Pierce, librarian of the Oregon State Library. Box 1 includes small prints and negatives. Box 2 is medium prints and a daguerreotype. Box 3 includes oversize prints.
The Pierce Papers, as currently arranged, are in actuality a combination of two separate collections. One set of papers was donated to the University of Oregon Library in 1942 and 1943 by Cornelia Marvin Pierce. It was designed to cover Pierce's congressional years during the Roosevelt administration and was comprised of the Pierce congressional office files. The second set of papers, containing primarily materials from Pierce's years in Oregon and local politics, was originally given to the Oregon State Library in Salem (also by Cornelia Pierce), but was transferred to the University of Oregon in 1979. The two collections have now been incorporated in order to reflect Pierce's entire career.
The papers initially donated to the University of Oregon Library in the 1940's arrived with subject headings, instructions and a designated arrangement from Cornelia Pierce, which maintained the organization of the files as they were used by the Pierces in Washington D. C. If this original classification system survives at all, it is only evident in the extended subject files (correspondence on special issues) and the legislative bill file. Over the years, a variety of people have handled the Papers, and five or six different staff members have made abortive attempts to reorganize them, thus confusing any original order. Also, a Pierce family member apparently donated more papers in the late 1940's or early 1950's, which were incorporated into the University's collection. The current arrangement of these files is a completion of processing efforts begun by other staff members, an attempt to restore whatever internal structure and order can still be perceived, and an amplification of the contents of the collection for easier access with a folder-by-folder listing.
The second set of papers, transferred to the University from the Oregon State Library, overlapped extensively with the University's collection. Although it did contain far more early correspondence, it also included much material from Pierce's congressional years. The State Library collection was the primary source for Arthur Bone's biography of Pierce and thus the collection arrived housed in envelopes identified by Bone and arranged according to his needs in structuring and writing his book. In incorporating this material with the papers already owned by the University of Oregon, the Bone arrangement was dismantled. The correspondence was filed chronologically and other materials were separated into their own series (i.e. Speech files and Personal papers) or combined with the appropriate subject-oriented files in the University collection. The multiple system of filing correspondence, while not ideal since it separates related materials, may be of some use to the researcher since it provides both chronological and subject access into the data.
The danger of subject entries, of course, is that one item may need to be filed in several places, as it covers more than one topic. Unfortunately, the size of the Pierce collection precludes more than the most cursory cross-referencing. It also precludes a correspondence name index.
Researchers using the Pierce Papers would be well-advised to take careful note of the inventory. Not only may material pertinent to a specific topic be filed in several different series, but within each subject-entry system there may be several headings relevant to a particular topic. (For example, regarding the anti-Japanese issue, material may be found in subject-organized correspondence under "Aliens," in the subject/issues files under that heading and also "Race conflict--anti-Japanese movement," in the Speech files under "Japanese issue," etc. Relevant correspondence also appears in the chronological correspondence files as early as 1910.) Cross-referencing has been attempted on a limited basis, but the inventory itself should be viewed as the best source of access.
This organization of the Pierce Papers is an attempt to arrange and describe two different collections that, although overlapping in content, have been divided for many years and have experienced different archival treatment. Though difficulties were encountered, accessibility should be enhanced by the partial interfiling of the two sets of papers, chronological arrangement of letters within each series, and the folder-by-folder listing of the entire collection.
Pierce, Walter Marcus, 1861-1954 (Person)
Walter M. Pierce was U. S. Congressman for Oregon's Second District from 1933 to 1943, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Previously he served as Governor of Oregon from 1923 to 1927. An active member of the Democratic Party, Pierce was essentially a Populist by inclination. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Roosevelt and the New Deal federal relief and regulatory programs, and an ardent proponent of public-owned and operated power facilities. His involvement with the national legislative process occurred at a crucial point of American history, the Depression and pre-World War II era, and his papers document the complex issues and trends of the times.
Born on a farm in Grundy County, Illinois on May 30, 1861, to Charles and Charlotte Clapp Pierce, Walter Pierce experienced what was at that time considered a typical rural boyhood. He attended local country schools, enjoyed public gatherings where politics, religion and philosophy were debated, and participated in such fraternal organizations as the Grange and the Masonic Ledge. His nativist outlook and Anglo-Saxon oriented goals and values, engendered by these early associations, remained with him throughout his life, occasionally conflicting with his usually progressive and individual-rights oriented policies.
Pierce began his career as a school teacher at age 17. Upon the advice of a physician who informed him that he had tuberculosis, Pierce moved west three years later in search of a drier climate. He eventually settled near Walla Walla, Washington. The townspeople of Milton, Oregon, spotted him at work at a nearby ranch and selected him to be their school teacher on the basis of his size; they had some "big boys" who needed to be "licked into shape." His desire to keep these "big boys" sober and receptive to education involved Pierce in his first political fight, driving saloons out of Milton. He was successful; hence the creation of the neighboring town of Freewater, where saloons could operate. Perhaps this success inspired Pierce to enter politics. At the age of 25, he was elected Superintendent of Schools for Umatilla County, a position he held from 1886 to 1890. He was less successful in his next attempt to influence public policy and practice. During his term as Umatilla County Clerk, 1890 to 1894, he joined forces with East Oregonian editor Sam Jackson to end the tyranny of the machine age by driving telephones out of Pendleton. The crusade failed.
Pierce entered state politics in 1903, when he was elected to his first two-year term as State Senator. He served for two additional terms between 1917 and 1921. During his years in office, he made the acquaintance of Jonathan Bourne, William S. U'Ren and other Progressive leaders, and thus became involved in the movement to establish direct election of Senators, and the initiative, referendum and recall options. These measures were designed to give the citizenry a far more direct voice in the operation of what was at that time one of the more notably corrupt state governments. The successful implementation of these options was widely acclaimed as the "Oregon system."
When he was not holding political office (although he always maintained political connections), Pierce practiced law and involved himself in a number of business ventures. He bought several farms, raised cattle and sheep, established a sanatorium at Hot Lake in Union County, acquired some mining interests and owned and operated a private power company in the La Grande area, among other things. He had married Clara Rudio, a former pupil, in June 1887; she died after giving birth to their first child, also Clara, in 1890. Pierce married his first wife's sister, Laura, in 1893 and they had a son, Loyd, and four daughters, Lucille, Helen, Edith and Lorraine.
In 1922, after completing his third term as State Senator, Pierce campaigned for the governorship against the incumbent, Ben Olcott. The election centered on the issue of public tax support for private schools (i.e. Catholic parochial schools), and Pierce won the election by opposing such support. He strongly believed in creating American citizens through the "melting pot" effect of public schools. The Ku Klux Klan, a major force in the anti-Catholic movement and influential in Oregon at the time, endorsed Pierce for the governorship. He tacitly accepted and used the connection. With Pierce's support, the 1923 Oregon legislature did indeed pass the "School Bill," denying public tax monies to parochial schools, but the legislation was overturned on appeal to the Supreme Court.
Pierce served as Oregon's governor for only one term. He was not particularly successful in obtaining support for his legislation and programs, and he was plagued with animosity from groups displeased with his unresponsiveness to their requests for patronage favors. The Ku Klux Klan, to whom he nay have owed his election, instituted recall proceedings against him on this basis. In addition, he antagonized big business owners and managers (predominantly lumber, liquor and private utility interests) by attempting to curb their free-wheeling activities and substantial profits. Something of a visionary, Pierce proposed a number of programs which were enacted at a later date, but were not acceptable or popular at the time. One of these proposals was a graduated income tax to supplement property tax revenues and remove some of the tax burden from the farms to industry.
Defeated in his bid for re-election in 1926, and suffering from the death of his second wife following a lingering illness in 1925, Pierce retired to his Grande Ronde farm. In 1928, he married for the third time, to Cornelia Marvin, Oregon State Librarian. She was highly respected in her own right for her efforts in organizing and developing Oregon's nationally recognized state library system, and she was to prove a valuable partner and ally in Pierce's legislative career as well. Pierce had lost most of his money by this time; his business ventures had ended unsuccessfully and his farms were heavily mortgaged. Cornelia Pierce bought one farm from him, and later bought hack much of the Grande Ronde farm after it had been foreclosed. But at the age of 71, Pierce's most productive years were still ahead of him.
In 1931, the Pierces campaigned for his election as U. S. Congressman from Oregon's Second District (eastern Oregon). This was a last-ditch attempt to provide a steady source of income and to continue Pierce's political involvement. The campaign was successful, providing the Pierces with the opportunity to participate in the development and implementation of Roosevelt's New Deal programs. Pierce became a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, the Special Committee on Forestry, and he was deeply involved in the development of public hydroelectric power, particularly the Bonneville Dam and other Columbia River projects. He was an active supporter of labor and the many economic and social welfare programs created during the post-Depression period, and energetically introduced and supported legislation in these areas. Cornelia Pierce served as his office manager, secretary and frontline defense; much of the correspondence from her explains or defends her husband's actions and views. It was a busy and productive ten years.
Pierce's final defeat for the congressional position in 1942 was a bitter blow, and was probably due to his age (81). He and Cornelia retired to her farm in Eola, Oregon. He then wrote his memoirs and gave occasional speeches. Both Walter and Cornelia became involved with the anti-Japanese movement during World War II, which received impetus from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but existed long before. Japanese truck farmers had proven amazingly successful in many areas of Oregon (notably Hood River and Malheur Counties) and the economic competition they provided, along with their increasing numbers, threatened local residents. The Pierces were sympathetic to the fear of Japanese "takeover" and apparently remained undisturbed by the contradiction between their usual strung individual-rights orientation and their desire to deport even U. S.-born Japanese. They firmly believed the Japanese culture was antipathetic to true "Americanism."
An unfortunate family dispute over property occurred during the Pierces' last years together. In 1943, Pierce's daughters had him sign a will bequeathing his interest in the Grande Ronde and Sand Ridge farms to them, even though Cornelia had purchased both farms and owned them in her name only. In 1948, Cornelia discovered the will and confronted her husband, who burned it and agreed that he had no title to the property and no right to bequeath it. The relationship between Walter and Cornelia remained warm, but estrangement developed between Cornelia and the Pierce daughters. They sued Cornelia for a portion of her farm holdings after Pierce's death. The case remained in litigation for several years, and was finally decided in Cornelia's favor the day after her death.
Pierce was faithfully nursed by Cornelia in her Eola farm home through his last years of illness and incapacity, even though he frequently lapsed into comas. He died March 27, 1954, to be followed by Cornelia three years later (February 12, 1957). As he so frequently stated, he had thoroughly enjoyed his career and opportunities, and his contributions spanned a time of vast change.
Source: Bone, Arthur H., editor, Oregon Cattleman/Governor/Congressman: Memoirs and Times of Walter M. Pierce, Oregon Historical Society, 1981 (Oregon Collection F 881 .P524)
89.25 linear feet (89 containers)
Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, photographs and material covering U.S. and Northwest history and politics. A major portion details Pierce's involvement with New Deal programs. The papers deal with agriculture, irrigation and land reclamation, public ownership, forest management, and the development of hydroelectric power. There are substantial files on the Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration, files on significant government issues and minority groups. The subject files contain pamphlets and material on pertinent topics, speech files, bills introduced by Pierce, a newspaper clippings file, personal and estate papers, and drafts of Pierce's memoirs.
Collection is organized into the following series: Series: Chronological correspondence filesSeries: Subject-oriented correspondence files Subseries: AliensSubseries: AviationSubseries: Birth ControlSubseries: Civilian Conservatin CorpsSubseries: CommunismSubseries: Courts--Supreme CourtSubseries: DefenseSubseries: Forests and ForestrySubseries: IndiansSubseries: LaborSubseries: Lumber tradeSubseries: Old age pensionsSubseries: PeaceSubseries: Public Works AdministrationSubseries: TransportationSubseries: Works Progress Administration Series: Subject/issues files Subseries: ElectionsSubseries: Legislative billsSubseries: Oregon LegislatureSubseries: Race conflictSubseries: Tax materials Series: Extended subject files; Agricultre Subseries: Farm credit and relief programsSubseries: Farm Security AdministrationSubseries: Agricultrual legislationSubseries: Special issues and commodities, dairy productsSubseries: Special issues and commodities, droughtSubseries: Special issues and commodities, fruit and nutsSubseries: Special issues and commodities, grazingSubseries: Special issues and commodities, livestockSubseries: Special issues and commodities, potatoesSubseries: Special issues and commodities, sugarSubseries: Special issues and commodities, wheat Series: Extended subject files; Irrigation Subseries: General correspondenceSubseries: National Reclamation AssociationSubseries: Columbia Basin ProjectSubseries: Irrigation and hydroelectric powerSubseries: Oregon irrigation reservoirsSubseries: Oregon irrigation districts Series: Extended subject files; Columbia River improvement and development Subseries: Umatilla Dam project Series: Extended subject files; Power Subseries: Power issues, general, including public vs. private powerSubseries: Power issues in the West, including public vs. private powerSubseries: Power, regional issuesSubseries: Public vs. private power, special aspectsSubseries: Federal regulation of private power companiesSubseries: Columbia Valley AuthoritySubseries: Bonneville Dam, legislative bills establishing: correspondence, reports, notesSubseries: Bonneville Dam, appropriations billsSubseries: Bonneville Dam, general correspondenceSubseries: Bonneville Dam, generalSubseries: Bonneville Dam, correspondence with specific individualsSubseries: Bonneville Dam, special aspectsSubseries: Bonneville Dam, industries, generalSubseries: Bonneville Dam, aluminum industrySubseries: Oregon Public Utility districtsSubseries: Oregon private utilitiesSubseries: Oregon municipal power companiesSubseries: Official Stenographer's Report...Subseries: Rural Electrification Administration Series: Extended subject files; war (World War II) Subseries: General correspondenceSubseries: War, special guestsSubseries: Oregon defense projects, proposedSubseries: Pamphlets and printed letters Series: Legislative bill file Subseries: 73rd CongressSubseries: 74th CongressSubseries: 75th CongressSubseries: 76th CongressSubseries: 77th Congress Series: Speech files Subseries: AgricultureSubseries: Democratice partySubseries: Power Series: Personal papers Walter M. Pierce estate Subseries: CorrespondenceSubseries: Walter M. Pierce autobiography and writingsSubseries: Pierce biographical materials and sourcesSubseries: Walter M. Pierce funeral materialsSubseries: Pierce diaries and datebooksSubseries: Pierce business materialsSubseries: Personal miscellany Series: Miscellaneous volumes Subseries: Theses regarding the "Oregon System"Subseries: Account books and ledgersSubseries: Scrapbooks Series: RecordingsSeries: Newspaper clipping files Subseries: Appointments and dismissalsSubseries: Boards of ControlSubseries: Bribery chargesSubseries: CampaignsSubseries: Cartoons, politicalSubseries: Farm problemsSubseries: ForestsSubseries: Governorship yearsSubseries: GrangeSubseries: Highway commissionSubseries: Hydro-electric powerSubseries: InaugurationSubseries: Irrigation projectsSubseries: Law enforcementSubseries: Legislature, miscellaneousSubseries: Oregon historySubseries: Pardons-penitentiarySubseries: Personal triumphs and tragediesSubseries: PoliticsSubseries: Press(politics)Subseries: Primaries: Voting abstracts and associated informationSubseries: ProhibitionSubseries: RecallSubseries: SchoolsSubseries: State governmentSubseries: State instiutionsSubseries: TaxesSubseries: Miscellaneous Series: Pierce memoirs and biography filesSeries: Photographs
Collection processed by C.R. and Megan Dazey.
Agriculture Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Agriculture -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Civic Activism Subject Source: Archiveswest
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Forestry and Forestry Products Subject Source: Archiveswest
Governors -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Japanese Americans Subject Source: Archiveswest
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Legislators -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
New Deal, 1933-1939 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Oregon Subject Source: Lcnaf
Oregon -- Politics and government -- 1859-1950 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Photographs Subject Source: Archiveswest
Pierce, Walter Marcus, 1861-1954
Political Campaigns Subject Source: Archiveswest
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
United States. Public Works Administration
United States. Works Progress Administration
Water-power -- Northwest, Pacific Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
LOC/E-F. History of the Americas
LOC/E-F/E2. American History, General
LOC/E-F/E3. Ethnic groups
LOC/T/T3. Hydraulic Engineering
Guide to the Walter M. Pierce papers
Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Processor
[Identification of item], Walter M. Pierce Papers, Coll 068, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.
[Identification of item], Walter M. Pierce Papers, Coll 068, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon. https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/1992 Accessed January 29, 2023.


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